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Movies that feel like Ernest & Celestine (2012)

If you loved Ernest & Celestine, the closest films we have are Despicable Me (2010), Mary and Max (2009) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). All three share Ernest & Celestine's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max Amazon Channel, Cinemax Amazon Channel and HBO Max and others, checked against today's data.

Celestine is a little mouse trying to avoid a dental career while Ernest is a big bear craving an artistic outlet. When Celestine meets Ernest, they overcome their natural enmity by forging a life of crime together.

🍅 98% Rotten Tomatoes7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Stéphane Aubierwhimsicalwarmgrittycontemplativewittyplayful

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Despicable Me
2010 · dir. Pierre Coffin
🍅 80%7.6animation · comedy · crime

Both land whimsy and warmth at once

The difference: None of the stillness that defines Ernest & Celestine

Determined to prove he's the world's greatest supervillain, Gru hatches an audacious plan to steal the Moon. To pull it off, he adopts three orphaned girls—Margo, Edith, and Agnes—intending to use them as pawns in his scheme. But the unexpected bond they form forces him to question the criminal life he's always known.

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Mary and Max
2009 · dir. Adam Elliot
🍅 96%8.1animation · comedy · drama

The same mix in both: stillness, then wit

The difference: Missing the grit of Ernest & Celestine

A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.

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The Wolf of Wall Street
2013 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 79%8.2crime · drama · comedy

Gritty and playful in the same breath

A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

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Minions: The Rise of Gru
2022 · dir. Kyle Balda
🍅 70%6.5animation · comedy · science fiction

Whimsical animation, and it commits to that

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

A fanboy of a supervillain supergroup known as the Vicious 6, Gru hatches a plan to become evil enough to join them, with the backup of his followers, the Minions.

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My Life as a Zucchini
2016 · dir. Claude Barras
🍅 99%7.8animation · comedy · drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

After his mother’s death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. There, with the help of his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to trust and love as he searches for a new family of his own.

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War Dogs
2016 · dir. Todd Phillips
🍅 62%7.1comedy · crime · drama

Both trade on grit more than on being crime

Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.

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Rango
2011 · dir. Gore Verbinski
🍅 88%7.3animation · comedy · family

Warm family in both cases

The difference: Leans western where Ernest & Celestine does not

When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging Western town of Dirt, the theater-loving lizard suddenly finds himself the newly appointed sheriff. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, Rango is forced to play his new role to the hilt and uncover the truth behind a looming water crisis—before his act catches up with him.

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Cruella
2021 · dir. Craig Gillespie
🍅 75%7.3comedy · crime · drama

Comedy built on wit, twice over

In 1970s London amidst the punk rock revolution, a young grifter named Estella is determined to make a name for herself with her designs. She befriends a pair of young thieves who appreciate her appetite for mischief, and together they are able to build a life for themselves on the London streets. One day, Estella’s flair for fashion catches the eye of the Baroness von Hellman, a fashion legend who is devastatingly chic and terrifyingly haute. But their relationship sets in motion a course of events and revelations that will cause Estella to embrace her wicked side and become the raucous, fashionable and revenge-bent Cruella.

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American Made
2017 · dir. Doug Liman
🍅 85%7.1comedy · crime · drama

Crime built on play, twice over

The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.

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An American Tail
1986 · dir. Don Bluth
🍅 76%6.9adventure · animation · comedy

Both keep circling back to mouse

The difference: Plays it as adventure more than Ernest & Celestine does

A young mouse named Fievel and his family decide to migrate to America, a "land without cats," at the turn of the 20th century. But somehow, Fievel ends up in the New World alone and must fend off not only the felines he never thought he'd have to deal with again but also the loneliness of being away from home.

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The Intouchables
2011 · dir. Olivier Nakache
🍅 75%8.5drama · comedy

Friendship is the engine of both

A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.

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50/50
2011 · dir. Jonathan Levine
🍅 93%7.6comedy · drama

The same preoccupation in both: friendship

Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.

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